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History 416
United States, 1914-1950
KC Johnson
Mondays and Wednesdays, at 3.30pm, Room 517
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from World War I through 1950. Topics include Woodrow Wilson and
Wilsonianism; the United States in the two world wars; the interwar era;
the New Deal; and the origins of the Cold War, both at home and abroad.
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The website contains links to a variety of
documents, all of which are required, that will be used throughout the term. The
following books, which are required, can be purchased at Shakespeare; or online
at amazon.com by following the links below:
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Requirements:
- Final Exam (DATE): 30%
- Midterm Exam (October 24): 20%
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Research Paper (10-12 pp.): 30%
- Participation: 20%
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Schedule:
August 29: Introduction
August 31: Progressivism
- Cooper, Warrior and the Priest, pp. 69-142.
September 5: No class--Labor Day
September 7: Election of 1912
- Cooper, Warrior and the Priest, pp. 143-228.
- 1912 Election--popular
and
electoral vote
September 12: Wilsonian Agenda at Home
September 14: Origins of World War I
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Map: pre-World War I alliance systems
- Map:
Balkan Wars
September 19: Wilsonian Agenda Abroad--QUIZ
#1
September 21: Decision to Enter the War
September 26: US and World War I
September 28: League of Nations Fight
October 3: No class--college holiday
October 5: No class--college holiday
October 10: No class--college holiday
Tuesday, October
11:
Postwar Constitutional Order
October 12: No class--college holiday
October 17: Postwar Economic Order
October 19: Election of 1924
October 24: Midterm
October 26: No class
October 31: US and the 1920s World
- Parrish, Anxious Decades, pp. 135-238.
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Map: membership in the League of Nations
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Map: US interventionism in the Caribbean Basin
November 2: Great Depression and American Society
- Parrish, Anxious Decades, pp. 239-288.
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New York Times covers the 1928 election
- 1928 Election--popular
vote
November 7: Origins of the New Deal--QUIZ
#2
November 9: Good Neighbor Policy
- Brinkley, End of Reform, pp. 15-136.
November 14: Was the New Deal a Constitutional Revolution?
- Parrish, Anxious Decades, pp. 364-430.
November 16: Origins of World War II
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Map: Nazi expansion in Europe, 1938-1942
- The Transformation of the German Electorate:
1928,
1930,
1933
November 21: Pearl Harbor
- Parrish, Anxious Decades, pp. 437-476.
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Map:
French and German battle plans, 1940
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Map: the
"hitch" at Sedan, 1940
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Map: Main camps
and killing sites, Nazi-occupied Europe
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Map:
Ghettoes in Nazi-occupied
Europe, with sizes
November 23: US at War--QUIZ
#3
November 28: Postwar Alternatives
November 30: Origins of the Cold War
December 5: Election of 1948
- Irwin Ross,
summary, 1948 campaign
- Clark Clifford,
"Memorandum for the President," August 1948 (8pp.)
- Clark Clifford,
"Memorandum for the President," 1947
- Thomas Dewey,
acceptance speech, Republican Party convention, 1948
- Henry Wallace,
acceptance speech, Progressive Party convention, 1948
- 1948 election:
popular vote
December 7: The Constitution and the National Security
State
December 12: Korea
December 14: McCarthyism
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